John Marburger
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John Harmen "Jack" Marburger III was an American physicist who directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of President George W. Bush, serving as the Science Advisor to
John Marburger official portrait
Marburger speaking during a 2003 news conference
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is the first and one of only two operating heavy-ion colliders, and the only spin-polarized proton collider ever built. Located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in
John Marburger
…improved the environmental management of the lab as well as community involvement and transparency. Marburger also presided over the commissioning of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, expanded the lab's program in medical imaging and neuroscience, and placed more emphasis on its technology transfer program. The tritium leak, combined…
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
The 25 MW Helium refrigeration system that cools the superconducting magnets down to the operating temperature of 4.5 K
An arc dipole magnet. Electrical bus slots (top and bottom) and beam tube (middle) at the top section of the vacuum shell
Curvature of beam tube seen through the ends of an arc dipole magnet